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REIN HOLDER..

No. 488,975. PatentedDeo.`27,1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

OLIVER B. HATHORN, OF MILO, MAINE, ASSIGOR OF ONE-THIRD TO BERT L.GOULD, OF SAME PLACE.

REIN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,975, dated December27, 1892.

Application filed January 5, 1892. Renewed December 5, 1892. Serial No.454,144. (No modelJ To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, OLIVER B. HATHORN, of Milo, in the county ofPiscataquis and State of Maine, have invented a new and usefulRein-Holder, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

The object of my device is to provide an efcient and simple means ofholding the reins of horses harness when not in use. I

Io accomplish this object by providing each ring of the bridle-bit ofthe harness with a perpen dicular cross-bar or strip of metal or othersuitable material, curved` at the ends so as to overlap and bind thering, and with a curvir5 lineardepressionin the center thereof forthepurpose of receiving the base of a metal spring clip, which is securedto the said crossbar or strip by a rivet in such manner that the openingbetween the projecting lips of 2o the spring clip is horizontal. Thereins are folded and pressed into the clip, which has sufficient tensionto hold them firmly, instead of being tied to the ring in the awkwardand insecure manner hitherto in vogue.

lar parts in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lis a plan, orfront View, showing the device attached to the ring of the bridle- 3obit., and Fig. 2 is a detached View of the side of the cross-bar withthe spring clip.

A,Figs. 1 and 2, is a strip of metal, curved at its ends so as tooverlap and bind the periphery of a bridle-bit ring, B, the said metal 35 strip A having a curvilinear depression midway of its ends for thereception of a springclip, C, made of a thin strip of metal, prefer-Similar letters of reference refer to simi- .n

ably springsteel, bent as shown in Fig. 2,the base of said springclipbeing secured to the metal strip A in the complementary depres- 4o sionbefore described by rivets or otherwise as may be desired.

I do not confine myself to the construction of the device as above setforth, as the metal strip A may be cast, forged, struck or punched fromsheet metal together with the ring B, and as a component part thereof,and the spring-clip C subsequently attached in the manner heretoforedescribed.

The cross-bar or strip, A, may be cast, 5o forged, or otherwisemanufactured as a component part of the ring B, and the springfelip, C,afterward attached in the Inannerdescribed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:- f

l. In a rein-holder, the combination of the cross-bar A provided 4withoverlapping ends hooking over the outer periphery of the ring 6o B, saidcross-bar being alsodepressed midway of the ends to receive the base ofa spring-clip, O, secured to said strip of metal or cross-bar A, thespring clip C, combined and arranged substantially as set forth anddescribed.

2. A reinholder consisting of a bit-ring, B, strip or cross-bar A, andspring clip O, in combination, as shown and set forth.

OLIVER B. HATI-IORN.

Witnesses:

M. L. DURGIN, F. E. MONROE.

